Green Leaves Early Learning Clarkson

🖤❤️💛💚💙🤍 At Green Leaves Early Learning, we’re proudly All In for National Reconciliation Week 2026 🖤❤️💛💚💙🤍

From 27 May to 3 June, we come together to learn about our shared histories, cultures, and achievements, and to explore how each of us can commit wholeheartedly to reconciliation every day.

Reconciliation starts with all of us, including our youngest learners. Through moments of curiosity, storytelling, music, art and connection, children begin to build understanding, respect and a sense of belonging.

Because every small conversation, shared experience and learning moment helps us to build towards a more inclusive future, together.

🌟 Join Us for National Simultaneous Storytime! 🌟

Today at 12 PM AEST, we are excited to participate in the National Simultaneous Storytime by reading "Luna Roo: The Kangaroo Baller"! 📚

This special event brings together children, parents, and educators from across Australia to celebrate the joy of reading. Luna Roo’s adventures inspire teamwork, courage, and the love of storytelling. Happy reading! 🌈📖

Yesterday our educators in Nursery Two spent International Bee Day educating our little friends about the awesomely important role of bees and other pollinators in our communities. We marked this special day by creating our own busy bees, using black paper and strips of yellow crepe paper, a fun and interactive way to develop the children's fine motor skills as they placed their yellow strips onto their black paper 🐝🌸🐝🌼🐝🏵🐝

Pirates day 🏴‍☠️

Ahoy our Green Leaves Maties! 👋

On Friday we had a wonderful day celebrating and raising funds for pirates day!

Everybody was super excited to dress up and talk in their best pirate voices!

Our Pre kindy children had a fun filled day where they created boats and jumped off the planks to shark infested waters! 🦈

😊 Indoor outdoor play! 👾

Indoor outdoor play is a big part of our culture here at Clarkson! The benefits of indoor outdoor play are endless and offer the children autonomy and choice within their day!

Indoor outdoor play offers a holistic and balanced approach to our children’s development, allowing them to have freedom of choice when exploring throughout their day ☺️

🐛 Caterpillar inquiry 🧐

Recently, the children in our Clarkson centre found a caterpillar, our educators had heaps of questions from everybody about twhere the caterpillars home was?

As an extension, educator Bella assisted the children in building a home using sustainable materials. One by one, the children added to the caterpillars home with what they felt would keep it secure and feel safe. They added soil, grass, sticks and various materials they found.

During a group time, the children named him “Bubbles” 🥹☺️. Bubbles has had amazing care from every child and also our parents! Bubbles has now burrowed and we are awaiting his return and then release.

As an extension, we have bought our centre a butterfly kit that arrived today so that the children can watch the life cycle for 6-8 weeks! We are so excited to embark on this journey! The children will be so excited to see them on Monday morning! ☺️🤩

This week we are celebrating Mother’s Day at our Clarkson centre ☺️

Our families were treated to a takeaway lunch, an exciting morning tea! And of course our famous Green Leaves Coffee ☕️

Happy Mother’s Day to every family 🌟

Messy play ☺️

👾 Today our tiny tots experience of the day is Gloop! Gloop is a fantastic STEM experience, the cold sticky liquid behaves differently to other types of liquids when pressured by squeezing hands and helps children develop concepts of liquid vs solid & in turn cause and Effect

Recipe : Cornstarch and water 🧑‍🍳

This week we welcomed Emily from hey dee ho to the service. The hey dee ho music program is an educational music experience where children learn the concepts of beat, rhythm, tempo, pitch and dynamics in a play-based environment. All of the rooms enjoyed the session and we can't wait for Emily to come back next fortnight 🎶🎭🪇

Teamwork making the dream work - our toddlers developed their fine motor skills and made a colourful masterpiece.